Susie is a 40-year-old female who lives independently in a subsidized housing apartment in Nazareth Pennsylvania. She is a mother of three children, two who are young adults and one who is 16 years old. When Susie was first diagnosed with cancer at the age of 30 and was given 6 months to live she gave custody of her two oldest children to her adoptive parents and gave full custody of her youngest to the biological father. Although Susie beat cancer she never got custody back of her children. Over the past two years, Susie youngest daughter has been using drugs and alcohol, running away, and being promiscuous which has resulted in the family being open to Schuylkill County Human Services. Susie has many medical and mental health issues. Susie
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One way to combat these effects is through the bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach that will incorporate a systemic based treatment and intervention in order to heal the whole person rather than just focusing on individual …show more content…
The Resilience Theory recognizes the internal and external protective and promotive characteristics in a client (Shulman 2012).
Due to my past experiences and professional roles, my initial assessment of Susie was slightly biased. I worked at the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (CYF) in the past as a caseworker and I realized quite quickly that I was judging her while she was explaining her past experiences and current issues with CYF when she was being investigated for abuse on her children. Once I realized this bias I became more mindful of this bias as to ensure that I stayed in my professional role and continued to work with her through a lens of a Certified Peer Support.
Secondly, my inexperience of working with an individual like Susie with a Borderline Personality Disorder at first hindered my ability to understand why Susie would become extremely upset and distressed about minor issues and had extreme emotional reactions continuously. My inexperience with the diagnosis interfered at first with my ability to understand why Susie struggled and became so upset about minor things resulting in me feeling frustrated in my interventions with her and causing a lack of empathy on my behalf. After realizing my insufficiency, I was able to educate myself and in doing so became more empathetic to
One way to combat these effects is through the bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach that will incorporate a systemic based treatment and intervention in order to heal the whole person rather than just focusing on individual …show more content…
The Resilience Theory recognizes the internal and external protective and promotive characteristics in a client (Shulman 2012).
Due to my past experiences and professional roles, my initial assessment of Susie was slightly biased. I worked at the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (CYF) in the past as a caseworker and I realized quite quickly that I was judging her while she was explaining her past experiences and current issues with CYF when she was being investigated for abuse on her children. Once I realized this bias I became more mindful of this bias as to ensure that I stayed in my professional role and continued to work with her through a lens of a Certified Peer Support.
Secondly, my inexperience of working with an individual like Susie with a Borderline Personality Disorder at first hindered my ability to understand why Susie would become extremely upset and distressed about minor issues and had extreme emotional reactions continuously. My inexperience with the diagnosis interfered at first with my ability to understand why Susie struggled and became so upset about minor things resulting in me feeling frustrated in my interventions with her and causing a lack of empathy on my behalf. After realizing my insufficiency, I was able to educate myself and in doing so became more empathetic to